The Department of Interior Thursday released an analysis of fossil fuel deposits showing an additional 1.30 billion barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico's Outer Continental shelf.

It's official: The Gulf of Mexico is no more (at least in the United States). Employees at the federal Board on Geographic Names have formally changed the name to the Gulf of America per one of ...

A Connecticut-based shipping company pleaded guilty to pollution charges after crew members on one of its ships deliberately ...

Google Maps now labels the Gulf of America for U.S. users, and the Gulf of Mexico for those in Mexico. This isn't the first body of water to have different names according to different countries.

A Gulf of Mexico Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force, made up of federal, tribal, state and local governments from the four states, will hold its first meeting June 15.

On June 8, 2021, the Department of the Interior (DOI) announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) intends to issue a request for information (RFI) to assess interest in potential ...

On the same day, newly inaugurated President Donald ordered the Department of Interior to relabel the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America in the agency’s maps, contracts, and other documents ...

The Interior Department said Wednesday that it is advancing two offshore wind projects in the Gulf of Mexico, identifying an area of roughly 700,000 acres for possible development as the Biden ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Tuesday, June 8, that it plans to assess potential opportunities to advance clean energy development in the Gulf of Mexico.

According to calculations by Sovereign Limits, a database of international boundaries, the United States lays claim to 46 percent of the gulf, while Mexico lays claim to 49 percent.. Maritime ...

Past and present Department of the Interior secretaries testified on the department's role in BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. They also addressed past government regulation and oversight of ...